The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 Seiten |
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... Romans returned . In the year A.D. 43 , the Roman legions were sent to Britain again , and in the course of the next forty years the country was reduced to subjection as far as the Tyne . Half a century later , the limit of Roman ...
... Romans returned . In the year A.D. 43 , the Roman legions were sent to Britain again , and in the course of the next forty years the country was reduced to subjection as far as the Tyne . Half a century later , the limit of Roman ...
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... Roman missionaries . Our English forefathers were heathen . We preserve relics of their worship in the names of the days of the week . Roman missionaries were sent to this country in the year A.D. 597 to teach them Christianity . Latin ...
... Roman missionaries . Our English forefathers were heathen . We preserve relics of their worship in the names of the days of the week . Roman missionaries were sent to this country in the year A.D. 597 to teach them Christianity . Latin ...
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... Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise . 10. The Revival of Learning . The sixteenth century is the time of the Revival of Classical Learning , or of the Renaissance as ...
... Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise . 10. The Revival of Learning . The sixteenth century is the time of the Revival of Classical Learning , or of the Renaissance as ...
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... Roman conquerors , but preserved some of their old Keltic words in their French speech . The Keltic words which passed into English through a Norman French channel are neither numerous nor dignified . Basket , cabin , hog , paunch ...
... Roman conquerors , but preserved some of their old Keltic words in their French speech . The Keltic words which passed into English through a Norman French channel are neither numerous nor dignified . Basket , cabin , hog , paunch ...
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... Romans held this country for nearly four hundred years , they left us no Latin words in our vocabulary as a legacy from ... Roman military stations . So in Lin - coln we have colonia : in Wall's End and Old Bailey , vallum appears in ...
... Romans held this country for nearly four hundred years , they left us no Latin words in our vocabulary as a legacy from ... Roman military stations . So in Lin - coln we have colonia : in Wall's End and Old Bailey , vallum appears in ...
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action Adjuncts adverb alphabet antecedent applied apposition assertion auxiliary verbs Britons called CHAPTER complete Complex Sentence compound conjugation conjunction consonants construction dative denote derivation diphthongal distinction employed ending English Grammar English language English origin equivalent Etymology examples express feminine following sentences following words French gender genitive German Gerund Give Greek horse illustrate Imperative Mood Indefinite indicative Indirect Object infinitive mood inflexion Intransitive Keltic language Latin words letters limiting mark meaning modern English neuter Norman noun or pronoun noun-clause occur Old English Parse passive Past Participle Past Tense person phrase Pleonasm plural possessive Predicate preposition present principal clause pronunciation relation relative pronoun represented Roman sentence contains signifies Sing singular sometimes sonant speak speech stands Strong Verbs subjunctive mood subordinate clause suffix superlative surd syllable Syntax Teutonic thou tive town transitive verb voice vowel vowel sounds Weak Verbs write written